Devs can only make even teams by player amounts/ stats they cant predict player activity....and thats how you win these events player activity. You had a 50/50 chance at free stuff...stop crying.
Agreed, devs still haft to tweak the system a bit regarding how the competition works. However was still unfortunately a fair thing, they could not trust players to pick their own faction. However that should have cut off sign ups at a certain point to stop exploits at the very end if it all.
You must be new. They used to use land and building tokens. lc and lcbc players couldn't even use their rewards because they didn't have any real growing left to do. They swapped to gold reward to make it more balanced between large and small players. Plus, with those tokens, they would expire, you can save silver bars with the gold bonus.